NTFS drive shows unknown

[cfendya]

Hey Guys - I'm running FreeNAS 9.1.1 and having a problem importing a drive formatted as NTFS. I'd like to only import it so I can use rsync to copy data to a ZFS volume.

The drive is 2TB in size however after the import operation, it only mounts it as a 823.5KB disk and shows "UNKNOWN" under Status.

Before putting it in my FreeNAS server I ensured it was unmounted within Windows and shut down Windows cleanly.

Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

[cfendya]

I ended up finding the problem out during a visit to a FreeBSD forum. Instead of Importing the Volume through the GUI, I SSH into my server and issued the following command.

ntfs-3g /dev/<device id> /mnt/<dir>​

This caused an error stating -> fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory​

To correct this I issued the below command and then reissued the ntfs-3g command above:​

kldload fuse​

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Once this was done, I could see and access all files residing on the 2TB NTFS drive. I'm not using rsync to copy data from NTFS over to ZFS :)

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Hope this helps someone!

 

[petterrabbit]

dude, i ran into this exact same problem. I'm just backing up my files now via knoppix, and then I'm going to give this a shot. If it works this is epic.

 

[Dusan]

I'm not using rsync to copy data from NTFS over to ZFS :)

Why rsync and not just cp -a? Do you already have a partial copy of the data on the ZFS disk? If not, then cp would be much faster.